Yes and its not useful, especially not in the context in which James is trying to use the concept.
There are an infinite number of exactly matched patterns that are not persons, and writing an infinite number of such exact non-person-predicates isn’t tractable.
In concept space, there is “person”, and its negation. You can not avoid the need to define the boundaries of the person-concept space.
Read this? http://lesswrong.com/lw/x4/nonperson_predicates/
Yes and its not useful, especially not in the context in which James is trying to use the concept.
There are an infinite number of exactly matched patterns that are not persons, and writing an infinite number of such exact non-person-predicates isn’t tractable.
In concept space, there is “person”, and its negation. You can not avoid the need to define the boundaries of the person-concept space.